6i. 



Abdomen darker; prothorax less punctured each side of the middle; elytral 



interspaces with three confused rows of punctures 3. praeusta, 



5. Elytra and abdomen usually darker; elytral interspaces with three 



confused rows of punctures 4. blCOlor. 



Ferruginous; elytral interspaces with two rows of punctures 5. texana. 



1. nigripennis, Dej. Spec. V, 408. — 10-12 mm. Ga. 



2. Clairvillei, Dej. Spec. V, 406. — 19 mm. Ga. 



3. praeusta, Dej. Spec. I, 289. — 14 mm. Ga. 



4. tricolor, Harris, N. Engl. Farmer VII, 117. 1820. Ed. Scudder. — Harris Corr. 343. 



r laticornis Dej. Spec. V, /\oj.=pudescens, Klug. Jahrb. I, 77. — 12-16. 5 mm. 

 Mass. Fla. Ks. N. Y. 



5. tcxana, Lee. Class. Car. p. 374. 17 mm. Tex. 



6. ferruginea, Lee. ibidem p. 373. - 13. 5-15 mm. Tex. 



CALERITA, 



Fab. 



Graceful, opake, pubescent insects, with head and elytra black, or blue- 

 black, and prothorax cordiform, ferruginous. Antennae long, setaceous, 

 1st. joint elongate: head strongly constricted behind, neck slender. Elytra 

 oval, broadly obliquely truncate behind, finely striate in our species, 

 costate in many foreign ones. 



Legs, palpi and base of antennae ferruginous 2. 



Legs, palpi and antennae black 1, atripes. 



2. Pubescence of elytra erect near the scutellum • • 3. 



Pubescence of elytra uniform, obliquely decumbent: head behind the eyes strongly 



rounded 2. Janus. 



3. Eyes larges and more prominent, sides of head obliquely rounded behind 3. LeCOIltei. 

 Eyes smaller and less prominent: sides of head longer behind, oblique and 



less rounded £. bicolor. 



1. atripes, Lee. Proc. Ac. Phil. 1858. p. 59. — 17-19 mm. Ks. Tex. 



2. yanus, Fab. Syst. El. I, 136. =americana, Fab. Syst. Ent. p. 2\2.=cordicollis, Chaud. 



Bull. Mosc. 1843. IV, 6gg.z=cyanipetmis, Dej. Spec. V, 293. — 17-22 mm. N. Y. 

 Ks. Fla. 



3. Lecontei, Dej. Spec. V. 2g4..=califormca, Mann. Bull. Mosc. 1843. II, 183. — 13. 5- 



18. 5 mm. S. C. Tex. Cal. 



4. bicolor, Drury, Ins. I, 94. t. 42, f. \.=americana., Dej. Spec. I, 187 .=boreaUs, 



Casteln. Hist. nat. I, ife.=dubia, Lee. Proc. Ac. Phil. II, $.=JongicolKs, 

 Chaud. Bull. Mosc. 1843. IV, 700. — 19-21 mm. N. Y. Ga. 



ZUPHIUM, Latr. 



Small, depressed, brown pubescent species, with triangular head, 

 squarely truncate behind, forming a very small neck, prothorax narrowed 

 behind; elytra feebly striate, broadly truncate at tip: antennae slender, 1st. 

 joint very long. 



